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lwingsb: MAME ROM Information.

The game is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up where you fly a winged soldier over a mythical Greek landscape. Shoot and bomb the attacking enemies. The game play switches between horizontal platform and flying levels.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 240 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 1024

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in November 1986.

This game is known in Japan as "Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers".

Eric Bolduc holds the official record for this game with 612,500 points.

- UPDATES -

Three versions of Legendary Wings were produced.

The original Japanese version was titled "Ares no Tsubasa" and featured two distinct player characters who are named in the game's attract sequence: Michel Heart (player 1), a woman in a pink bikini, and Kevin Walker, a man in blue trunks.

Two overseas versions were produced: one version (US Set 1) replaces both characters with nameless male characters; while the second version (US Set 2) retains the original characters, changing the color of Michel's bikini from pink to green.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* On each level, a trio of statues arranged in a triangular pattern will appear about three-quarters of the way through. Bomb them until one of them reveals a passageway (you'll have to bomb them all; it's not the same one every time), and fly into it. You'll now be in a cave, free to fly along and collect treasure chests worth 200 points apiece. When you're in the cave, though, don't shoot - if you fire and hit a treasure chest it's destroyed, and some of the cavern walls release enemies when shot.

* A mouth's stage bug : At the final of each stage inside of the statue's mouth, you have to go upstairs to face a stage boss. You can avoid to confront him directly. To achieve this, go upstairs and walk slowly approximately to the middle of the platform. The music will change to the boss theme. Go back downstairs and stay on the middle platform. Keep shooting the screen at the opposite direction of the boss. He will be defeated in seconds this way, without any risk for your character.